{"id":318,"date":"2015-01-02T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:26:02","slug":"us-pretends-to-be-fighting-isis-iranian-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-pretends-to-be-fighting-isis-iranian-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"US pretends to be fighting ISIS: Iranian diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A senior Iranian diplomat says the United States pretends to be fighting the ISIL\u00a0Takfiri terrorist group as a trick to advance its policies in the Middle East region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that the United States is not acting to eliminate the ISIL. They are not even interested in weakening the\u00a0ISIL; they are only interested in managing it,\u201d Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Reuters in an exclusive interview on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Since August, the US and some of its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what they say are ISIL positions in Iraq. Some members of the US-led coalition also started bombarding \u2018ISIL targets\u2019 inside Syria in September.<\/p>\n<p>However, the raids have so far failed to dislodge the Takfiri group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the ground, where the US should take serious action, there are no serious actions taking place. The US is not doing anything,\u201d\u00a0Amir-Abdollahian said, adding, \u201cOne day, they support the ISIL, another day they are against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe ISIL terrorists control some parts of Iraq and Syria. They are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2015\/01\/02\/391205\/US-pretending-to-fight-ISIL\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Iranian diplomat says the United States pretends to be fighting the ISIL\u00a0Takfiri terrorist group as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[30,14,15,11,7],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-iran","tag-isis","tag-militants","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Hossein-Amir-Abdollahian.jpg?fit=650%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}